As Americans have grown fatter, the percentage of adults with diabetes has also risen. Diabetes involves the inability of the body to process sugars derived from the foods we eat. Type 1 (AKA childhood diabetes) is inborn where a child's body lacks the ability to produce enough insulin. Type 2 (AKA adult onset diabetes) usually involves obesity where a steady diet of sugar, carbohydrates and other such foods have burnt out the body's ability to produce enough insulin and/or created a condition where the body's cells have developed resistance to insulin.
Another kind of diabetes develops among some pregnant women -gestational diabetes. Diabetes is an inflammatory disease and some recent studies point the possibility that Alzheimer's disease is actually Type 3 diabetes.
In more than a fifth of states -12 to be exact- the percentage of diabetic adults has now risen to more than 10%.
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